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the state government's statement below...
The
attention of the Rivers State Government has been drawn to a publication in The
Punch newspaper of Friday, 24/06/ 2016. The report alleges that one “Mr
Kinsgsely Fubara”, said to be a Director of Finance and Administration, in the
Rivers State Government House, made repeated financial withdrawals from the
Central Bank of Nigeria and Zenith Bank, to the tune of 11 billion Naira.
According
to the report, the “suspicious withdrawals” on behalf of the Rivers State
Government were made between December 2015 and February 2016.
The
government categorically denies this fabricated and irresponsible publication
by the Punch.
The
Rivers State Government never conducted such financial transactions and the
report is patently false.
The
Rivers State Government has no record of any staff known as Kingsely Fubara.
This must be a fictional character created by the All Progressives Congress
(APC)) and the Punch newspaper to embarrass the State Government and deceive
the public.
The
Punch report also indicated that the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF)
has directed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe these
so-called withdrawals. Such a directive, if true, would be a manifestly illegal
and ridiculous proposition.
By
law, the Rivers State Government is accountable to the Rivers State House of
Assembly and the people of Rivers State, not to the Attorney General of the
Federation.
This
is a totally fictitious report typically orchestrated by the APC and its media
allies.
But
the story raises fundamental questions about the moral horror that confronts a
nation where an anti-graft agency becomes openly partisan in all its intentions
and actions.
There
is universal concern that the EFCC is playing an extremely corrosive role in
the current political dispensation. Rather than fight corruption in a
professional and dispassionate manner, the EFCC behaves shamelessly like an
integral organ of the APC.
An
anti-graft commission that targets only opposition politicians and critics of
the failed policies of the APC government is a national embarrassment.
Has
the EFCC ever heard of one Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, the former governor of Rivers
State and current Minister of Transport? Despite receiving over three trillion
Naira in eight years as governor, Amaechi left the most abandoned projects in
the history of Rivers State, since 1967. Several petitions against Amaechi,
supported by sworn affidavits, have all been summarily ignored by the EFCC.
Even
chieftains of the APC have publicly acknowledged Rotimi Amaechi’s stupendous
financial contributions to the party’s presidential campaign in 2015. These
financial contributions, estimated to be in billions of Naira, constitute
serious financial crime against the people of Rivers State.
The
Government and people of Rivers State will resist any politically-motivated
targeting of its leaders by any agency of the Federal Government, by whatever
name it is called.
Signed:
Dr.
Austin Tam-George,
Commissioner
for Information and Communication,
Rivers
State.
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